As soon as I slowly walked into the Las Vegas Hotel after my flight from Hawaii at 12:30am I found him. Elvis was standing there waiting for me. That's more than I can say about Dirck Halstead, but we'll get to that shortly. Read MorePosted 20140408

Once again I was among the Thursday walking techno-zombie dead. But the last day of NAB is actually a good day since 75% of the people have gone home. The floor is wide open and you can actually get some personal time with software managers and the folks who build the gear. Read MorePosted 20130413

The National Association of Broadcasters, or NAB, calls itself "The Best Show On Earth." Held April 6-11 in Las Vegas, it is the world's largest electronic media event, covering film, entertainment, and the development, management and delivery of content across all mediums. With more than 90,000 attendees from 151 countries, and 1,600+ exhibitors, NAB is the ultimate marketplace for digital media. From creation to consumption, across multiple platforms and countless nationalities, NAB is home to solutions that surpass traditional broadcasting and encompass content delivery to new screens in new ways. It is the ultimate video geek toy store! Read MorePosted 20130412

I wanted to devote this post to the Super Meet, which in the past got a paragraph at the end of our annual NAB reports. To me, it's the best night of NAB week. The annual meeting of the editors tribes. Michael Horton and his crew do a bang-up job and work their butts off each year. Last night was wonderful and not a technical glitch to speak of. It was perfect. Hats off to the tech crew that worked the Rio Ballroom. You rocked. Read MorePosted 20130409

Roger and I bought some gear to test. We used Dirck's credit card - hope that was okay.

Lots to report from the NAB exhibit floor this year. You'll get the full story over the next four days, if I survive. I walked at least 27 miles today with little time for food. Who says Vegas is a fun town. Read MorePosted 20130408

As Roger and I wait for the doors to the NAB Exhibition Hall to open tomorrow morning at exactly 9am we are thinking about what may be the star of the show. Some new software update like CS7, some new camera, a plug-in that makes your editing life easier or a piece of gear you never knew you needed? Read MorePosted 20130407

Future Media Concepts' Post Production World started today at 12. Roger and I both sat in on numerous workshops dealing with the Adobe CS6 Suite, which has some very cool upgrades in all video applications that Adobe will be showing starting on Monday. It might be called CS7, but what do I know. Read MorePosted 20130406

A middle-aged arthritis sufferer leaped spritely onto a brick platform in the gardens of Jama Masjid, a mosque in Old Delhi. He sprang back down again, grinning. He was showing off what he said were the results of the traditional cure for which he was patiently waiting in line. Venesectionist Mohammad Gyas watched as the son he trained sliced open the tourniquet-bound hands and feet of the sick with single-use razor blades. Read MorePosted 20130319

MediaStorm's Rick Gershon and Nathan Golon traveled to Angola for 10 days recently to tell the story of the work of the Mines Advisory Group at work uncovering the thousands of mines laid by rebel forces in that African country. This was also a test for the new Canon C300 camera, which is capable of delivering cinema like imagery. The photography is stunning. Watch Surviving the Peace: Angola

A 21st century digital storyteller has to be producer, writer, camera, sound, editor, and everything else. Just like the millennia-old Platypus, a mashup of otter, duck, and beaver, has evolved and survived, so must the modern photojournalist. Read More

Over the twelve years we have been conducting the Platypus Workshops around the world, we have noticed some interesting changes in the makeup of our classes. For the first five or six years, our attendees were almost entirely freelance or newspaper staff photographers. During that time, we trained more than eight Pulitzer Prize winners. Read More

Platypus Graduates, Texas State University 2012
Stand in front of statue of Lyndon Johnson as a student

I knew Horst Faas well. When I first arrived in South Vietnam in the spring of 1965 to create the UPI photo bureau, I was advised, while in the field, to study the movements of the AP photo bureau chief. I should: go where Horst goes, try to get pictures as good as his, and never go where he never goes. Read More

If you're a traveler at heart and you love seeing the world, then you must experience Visa Pour L'Image at least once in your lifetime. And if you're a professional journalist who draws inspiration from the works of your most talented colleagues, then you must roam this annual photo festival at least once during your career. Read More

9/11 Story

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